This guy managed to appall almost all of Silicon Valley over the course of an hour

TJ Miller tanked as host
of the Crunchies, known as the Oscars of the tech
industry.Steve Jennings/Getty
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Thousands of techies gathered in San Francisco's Davies
Symphony Hall on Thursday night for the eighth annual Crunchies
Awards, known as the Oscars
of Silicon Valley.

Actor TJ Miller served as host, shepherding the venture
capitalists, CEOs, and tech reporters through the evening. But
many people weren't impressed by his performance and found his
attempt at humor insulting.

Miller's show "Silicon Valley" on HBO satirizes everything the
audience represents. The series revolves around six young men who
launch a company and live together in a startup incubator-house
run by a Peter Thiel-inspired entrepreneur, played by Miller.

The ceremony started out strong, with Miller teasing techies
about the way they dress and their absurd amounts of wealth, and
reading off alternative slogans for the startups nominated for
awards. But the night quickly unraveled when Miller made one of
many jokes at Uber's expense.

"And the Crunchie for not constantly stepping in s--- goes to
Travis Kalanick," Miller said. "So does the Crunchie for
constantly stepping in s---."

A woman in the audience, sitting next to divisive billionaire
Kalanick and holding a sleeping dog in her lap, heckled Miller
with a simple "boooo." Miller responded immediately — his tone
quickly escalating.

"Hey, Asians aren't supposed to be this entitled in the United
States," Miller said, shortly before calling her a b----.

Here's Kalanick and the woman before the show. Unbeknownst to
Miller, she is Gabi Holzwarth, Kalanick's girlfriend.

For 10 painful minutes, he and Holzwarth batted back and forth.
He asked why she was here and lambasted her company, delivery
startup Shyp. "It's like FedEx but it's spelled wrong," Miller
said.

Then the actor annihilated
her for daring to bring a small dog to the Crunchies.

Gabi
Holzwarth is dating Uber CEO, Travis Kalanick.Paul Morigi/Getty

"Miss, do you have your dog
here? Is that real?" he asked in disbelief, prompting her to hold
it up for the audience to see. "Two questions. How did you get
that dog in here? Second question: Did you Shyp it?"

Eventually Miller left the stage and the presentation continued.
But during every sequential appearance on stage, Miller made a
show of apologizing to Holzwarth and Kalanick, whose net worth he
says he Google-searched backstage.

The audience didn't seem to enjoy Miller's crude jokes. Katie
Jacobs Stanton, who attended The Crunchies on behalf of Twitter,
says
she'll never go again. "I was so uncomfortable I wanted
to leave," Stanton wrote on Medium. She wasn't just
appalled by Miller. She says other Crunchie presenters talked
about enjoying women's "hoohas."

TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington also commented about
Miller's trainwreck performance when he took the stage. He
refused to read from the award ceremony's script stating, "It’s
the worst thing I’ve ever seen. Every time someone comes on
stage, it’s like ‘oo, ow.'... One more ‘bitch’ and something’s
going to happen.”

At the end of the night, Shyp's official Twitter account sent
this message to Miller.